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Discovering regulators of the Drosophila cardiac hypoxia response using automated phenotyping technology.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Mar 2008
Feala Jacob D, Omens Jeffrey H, Paternostro Giovanni, McCulloch Andrew D
Abstract excerpt
Necrosis and apoptosis during acute myocardial infarction result in part from the inability of hypoxic cardiac myocytes to match ATP supply and demand. In contrast, hypoxia-tolerant organisms, such as Drosophila, can rapidly regulate cellular metabolism to survive large oxygen fluctuations. A genetic screen of fly heart function during acute hypoxia can be an unbiased way to discover essential enzymes and novel...
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